On Nov. 14, 1994, the 31-mile Channel Tunnel under the English Channel opened to passenger traffic between England and France ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, November 14Auriga the Charioteer rides high in the sky tonight, reaching an altitude of 70° above the eastern horizon by local midnight.

Times listed are from The Sky This Week by Astronomy magazine, calculated for 40°N, 90°W. Central Wisconsin observers can expect sunrise, ...

Warm, humid air will hang over south Arkansas through mid-week, with a daily chance of showers or thunderstorms and only ...

"This successful test marks a major step forward in the development of future satellite control systems." For the first time, ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Saturn and Jupiter, he had just discovered the nature of two giant planets. Later came Uranus and Neptune, two more gas giants. Since then, astronomers have ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — Those who woke up early on Thursday morning got a treat as SpaceX launched nearly 30 Starlink satellites. The Falcon 9 rocket sent up Starlink 10-61 mission from ...